1. The Importance of
Music
Janet Ramirez
Public Speaking

2. Music Today
O There are over 50 genres that exist
O A lot of these new genres
involve electronically produced
music (ex. EDM, Dubstep,
Techno, etc.)
O Different languages
incorporated into songs

3. All these genres have things in
common…
O Bind people together
O Evoke strong emotions/feelings
O Music-induced trance
O Music Therapy
O Music imagery & Hallucinations
O Musicogenic Epilepsy

4. Binding People Together
O Concerts, clubs, parties, etc.
allow people to bond and experience
music together
O Music plays an important role in
special occasions such as weddings, parades, and
religious festivities
O “…means of giving voice to their
common experience and to give
vent to anger, grief and frustration at
their mistreatment.”

5. Evoke Strong
Emotions/Feelings
O Motivation
O Sadness
O Euphoria

6. Music-Induced Trance
O “Ecstatic singing/dancing, wild movements
and cries, perhaps, rhythmic rocking, or
catatonia-like rigidity or immobility…”

7. Music Therapy
O “…music was as powerful
as any drug.”
O Important to people with
Motor disorders like
Parkinson’s and Tourette’s
Syndrome.

8. Music Therapy
O Also to others with frontal
lobe, alzheimer's, autism, or William’s
syndrome

9. Music Imagery &
Hallucinations
O Common and affects about 2% of those
losing their hearing
O “…most common form of
non-psychotic hallucination.”

10. Musicogenic Epilepsy
O Sensitivity to music and sound
O May often lead to
seizures!

11. In Conclusion…
Music is insanely powerful 

12. Resources:
O http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/
10/2528.full.pdf+html
O http://www.interdependence.unimelb.edu.
au/lib/Microsoft%20Word%20-
%20Connecting%20through%20music_Gl
obal%20interdependence_%20_4_.pdf